Padmore Enyonam Agbemabiese Poems

what is sleep
if not with my face
against your back
my ear
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when you return from home
we’ll spent several nights
searching for something in us
to write a poem about the willowy trees
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Dzogbese Lisa,
give me the strength of the hills
never washed away by summer rain
give me the vigor of the cactus
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let me be
the scream in your fear
the moan in your pains
let me be
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tonight, our love like the setting sun
slips away like a shadow behind the grooves
like a pencil of smoke it enters the thin air
till it fades like the indigo cloth with time
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through all hurt and pain
even in whirlwinds that tear the soul
or the sorrowful rain that maims the heart
I still hold so dear breathes that
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its not the years we loved
its the quality of love we shared

its how we walked through the valleys
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tonight is the night of which I dreamt
and saw a smile on your lips and a flower in your hand
I saw tulips and bougainvilleas, roses and daffodils
they opened their petals like the sunflower
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I have heard it told
that from the wrecks of time
and life's garbage heap
the lily sprouts
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last night
when the full moon lost its glow
over a crystal rose beneath my window
a crispy haze of solitude surrounded my soul
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